In 1991, whilst at art college, Seedle was so inspired by Aldous Huxley’s ‘Doors of Perception’ that he decided to cut out all of the letter E’s from the book, soak them in ecstasy and distribute them to fellow students. The resulting e-mêlée was entitled 'Doors of Prcption' and received a gold star from tutors.
Since then, Seedle’s practice has sprouted and flowered like a soft mould on the upper lip of visuality; the contemporary moustache has been overrun with the mossy mildew of inspiration, and Seedle’s work is a particularly thick hair in this confused metaphor.
‘So what he do now?’ ask you, eyes glimmering like a mad sparrow.
Well, Seedle still works with perception, but has become more ambitious in the scale of his projects. His current intervention involves soaking library books in LSD and Ketamine - the result is a predictably hilarious nationwide panic. We find Barbara Cartland housewives, high on joy, serving their husbands Toad-in-the-K-hole; elderly gardeners shaving their heads and planting car stereos; paranoid engineering students firing staples at their textbooks and children finally able to understand the point of Noddy and Barney the Dinosaur. Worst off are the librarians themselves, who have been seen making nests from shredded magazines and scanning their eyeballs with barcode readers.
The only demographic thought not to have been touched by the epidemic are the press, art critics and PR monkeys, who are known never to read anything. The next stage of Seedle’s enterprise involves soaking web pages in hallucinogens, which will evaporate upon a user’s click.
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2006-08-14 @ 10:35